Seventy-five Percent of Young Americans Are Unfit to Serve in the Military

 “Seventy-five percent of young Americans, between the ages of 17 to 24, are unable to enlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record or are physically unfit.”

-          from the Pentagon via Arne Duncan

Does America Have a Future?

By DAVID FRUM

September 8, 2011

New York Times Sunday Book Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/that-used-to-be-us-by-thomas-l-friedman-and-michael-mandelbaum-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=review